Re: getting dpkg ready for reproducible sid

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 10:34:08 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 12:26:13 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > b.) common build timestamp for all files created at a later time
> 
> Pending release of new upstream tar. And the patch reworked to stop
> trying to detect the presence of --clamp-mtime at run-time.

Ok, so tar 1.29 has just been released and uploaded to Debian. I've
reworked the patch as mentioned above, and will merge it for 1.18.8,
and will do the same for most of the others.

Thanks,
Guillem